Green Day 'land on Mars' with link to space mission

The NASA InSight space mission touched down on the red planet earlier today.

With the landing Green Day revealed they have also “landed on Mars” with the phrase "Green Day Since 1986" etched onto a chip on the InSight lander.

The lander will now deploy a seismometer and burrow a heat probe into the core so scientists at the space agency can better understand how Mars was formed, which in turn could tell them new things about Earth. All with a little help from a piece of rock royalty.

Meanwhile, Green Day look like they could be set to jump back into action under the moniker of their side project, The Foxboro Hot Tubs. Earlier this month, Billie Joe Armstrong shared a screenshot of one of the band’s tracks playing on his phone and revealed in the caption the group were about to head back into rehearsals.